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What would this other point of view show? I don't see how there can be alternative opinions on this, metabolism isn't that different between humans.

I guess you could argue that he didn't reach the correct conclusion, but that's different point.



Googling 'Lustig criticism' gives you a good place to start. Though with nutritional science, everything is so far from consensus (and when there is a consensus, it's 20 years behind the science) that you should treat this as a jumping-off point to read the literature instead of an authoritative rebuttal.

http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-ab...

There's a section about halfway down where he discusses Lustig's claims that things like HFCS are metabolized differently and negatively.


Because I'm not a doctor or a biologist, so I need a few counterpoints as checks in order not to be blinded. It's just a quick check valve while I read more about the subject.




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